The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.